The Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge’s longevity is nearly as astounding as the story of its builder, Horace King, part black, part white, part Catawba Indian—a man so far ahead of his time that he wore a soul patch 60 years before anyone heard of jazz.

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It doesn’t much matter what I think about Superica and The El Felix, Ford Fry’s two new Tex-Mex restaurants with almost identical menus and almost identical lines. When I asked the manager of The El Felix—in Avalon, the Alpharetta mall-city—how many diners they served, he said, “Three to four hundred on a slow night.”

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Style & Substance

How to decorate with summer's happiest hues, a Swedish midsummer celebration, where to shop on the Westside, Nancy Braithwaite on Coco Chanel, luxe life on the lake, an essay from Mary Kay Andrews, and much more in the summer issue of Atlanta Magazine's HOME.

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Southbound magazine, the newest ancillary title from the publishers of Atlanta magazine, showcases the top travel destinations in the Southeast. We visit idyllic small towns and exciting cities in search of outstanding vacation opportunities.Inside Southbound

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July 2015: Top Doctors

The list of doctors whom other doctors trust most. Plus, a roundtable of experts on the challenges of Alzheimer’s disease, and an Atlanta photographer documents his surgeon father’s struggle with dementia.

The iconic Randolph-Lucas House has found a savior

The Peachtree Road mansion will move to an empty lot in Ansley Park

The beleaguered but beloved red brick mansion on Peachtree Road at Lindbergh Drive has finally found a savior. This summer, NewTown Partners, an Atlanta-based economic development consulting firm specializing in historic preservation, will move the home to 78 Peachtree Circle, an empty lot in Ansley Park, where it will become the private home of company founders Christopher Jones and Roger Smith.

The iconic Randolph-Lucas House, which figured prominently in the Anne Rivers Siddons novel Peachtree Road, was owned by the 2500 Peachtree Road Condominium Association, which obtained a demolition permit last fall in order to build a new pavilion.

Desperate to save the 1924 structure, the Buckhead Heritage Society had offered to give the home—free of charge—to anyone able to move it. In January, Buckhead Heritage, the City of Atlanta, and the condo association selected NewTown’s proposal. Since then, the firm has been working with JTM House Movers to coordinate logistics—which will involve relocating aerial utility lines and even building a temporary road through the large vacant lot across from the High Museum, which backs up to the new address. (The structure was actually moved once before—several dozen feet when the condominiums were built in 1998.)

The home was built for Thomas Jefferson’s great-great-grandson Hollins Randolph. Atlanta architect P. Thornton Marye, who also helped build the Fox Theatre, designed the Georgian-Revival style home to resemble Randolph’s ancestral home near Charlottesville, Virginia. Margaret Lucas purchased the home in 1935 and lived there until her death in 1987. Afterward, the home served as a special events facility and an office, but it has been unused in recent years. In its new location, an historic façade easement will prevent future demolition.

Taking a building out of its original context destroys much of the historic integrity. This building was one of the last examples from a street that was at one time dominated by beautiful residential homes. (The few other remaining examples include the Rose House and the Margaret Mitchell House.) The city of Atlanta and the developer of the condos had committed to maintenance of this house, on site, in perpetuity. Neither honored their agreement.